Judaism
TRUE OR FALSE: Judaism has always believed in the concepts of heaven and hell.
False
"We belong to Allah and to Allah we _______" is often said upon the news of a death in Islam.
return
"All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation: but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of Heaven" describes this place.
purgatory
The ultimate goal of Buddhism is to escape the cycle of _________ .
rebirth
________ is the god of death in Hinduism.
Yama
________ is a period of seven days' formal mourning for the dead, beginning immediately after the funeral.
Barzakh is the name of an _________ time and place in which souls dwell following death but prior to the resurrection at the end of time.
intermediate
The Catholic practice of ______ led Martin Luther, in part, to nail his 95 theses to the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany.
indulgences
________ is, in some forms of Buddhism, the intermediate, transitional, or liminal state between death and rebirth.
Bardo
The study of deathbed scenes, corpse preparation, burial practices, funeral proceedings, mourning traditions, and other forms of commemoration that serve as the basis of knowledge about a group of people is called _________.
deathways
This prayer, the _______, is recited daily by mourners throughout the ritual mourning period following the death of a father, mother, son, daughter, or spouse.
Kaddish
In Islam, a good death can be achieved if talqeen is enacted; this is a term for urging the dying person to say the Muslim declaration of ________ known as the shahada.
faith
Christian beliefs about life after death are based largely on the _______ of Jesus Christ.
resurrection
Buddhism is the world's _____ largest religion.
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fourth
________, an ancient Mesopotamian king, went on a search for immortality after his BFF's death.
Gilgamesh
The hevra kaddisha is responsible for what?
washing the body
Islam prohibits cremation based on the belief in the ________ of the body on Judgement Day.
resurrection
TRUE OR FALSE: All Christians agree on when the deceased soul of a good person enters heaven.
false
Buddhists do not believe there is an unchanging _________, but they do believe a continuum of mental states (stream of consciousness) flows from life to life.
self/soul
"Over the course of human history the _______ has guided the development of art, religion, language, economics and science. It raised the pyramids in Egypt and razed the Twin Towers in New York.”
terror of death
Upon hearing about a death, a Jew recites the words, “Baruch dayan emet,” which in English translates as "Blessed be the one true ________."
The mourning period in Islam lasts for _______ days (this period is longer for widows!).
The idea of predestination can be traced back, in part, to _______, a French reformer. He wrote that "not all are created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and, accordingly, as each has been created for one or other of these ends, we say that he has been predestined to life or to death."
John Calvin
Donating to Buddhist monks in Thailand is believe to generate good ________________, or “merit.”
karma
A 2007 document published by the Catholic Church states that "it remains therefore a possible theological hypothesis." What is the "it" here?
limbo